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  what was the worst advice given to you while you were a JW ?

  by wasblind in

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  mine's was, if your job interfere with the meetings you have to decide who you will choose,.

  serving jehovah or serving man, if anyone knew my needs it most definitely was jehovah.

  and he knew i needed my job to eat.

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  to stay in it
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  Ray Franz Passed Away Today

  by Amazing in

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  i just received word that ray franz passed away today at 1:37 pm eastern daylight time.

  the cause of death is stated as head trauma, likely due to falling to the ground, and a stroke could have also been part of the cause or a result of the fall.

  he died at emory university hospital in atlanta about 17 minutes after being taken off life support.

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  R.I.P. Ray. You touched more people than you know.

  Dantheman
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  how long in truth,,,what was the final "straw"

  by peaches in

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  i was in for 30 years.....my ex was an elder...."holy spirit appointed" he tortured me....i was married 33+ years....you know,,,marriage is sacred...you can leave,,,i know,,,,if abuse is intolerable....but that starts a series of events...etc etc etc....i finally left everything...and moved far away.....people actually believe "holy spirit" appoints people,,,my ex would not pray unless there was an audience...you know,,,,people invited over for supper kind of thing,,,you get the point..... my best friend had a mental breakdown,,,,she basically became psychotic.....had to be hospitalized....she took up smoking,,,got disfellowshipped...and lost all emotional support....to this day,,,,as far as i know,,,she is still disfellowshipped...needs to be hospitialized every so often....she is on complete disability.....and still trying to get back into the org....her mother does support some what,,,,even though she is a witness herself,,,,,takes her to assemblies,,,,memorial,,,etc,,,,this has gone on for years.....she cannot mentally handle the organization,,,nor can she mentally handle not being a witness...lost everything....guilt....etc..... did not mean to ramble on so much......i have mental scars that will not go away....because i stayed in a "mess" for god,,,,i could write page after page of things like the above....as being my "last straw".......curious about you here on the board....any specific "breaking point" or a collection of many things..... thanks for your in put...peaches.

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  fresh prince of ohio

  10 yrs, 1992-2002

  Final straw: 2001 district convention drama.
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  Porn is .....Mostly Irrelevant

  by metatron in

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  this is one of those things that can amaze you (well, me actually).

  you are taught a relentless fear about porn and it gets demonized heavily - but what is the real result?.

  most guys don't want a porn star for a wife and separate fantasy from reality in regard to interaction with the opposite sex.. maybe that's why religious types like witnesses demonize it so much: they are unable to distinguish fact from fantasy.. see:.

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  I've been hooked since i first stumbled across it on cable tv when i was 6 years old. I didn't even understand what was going on exactly, but i was utterly mesmerized by it.

  I wonder what evolutionary advantage sexual repression bestows upon groups? There must be some reason why sexual shame is so prevalent in the human psyche. I think it's all about the power of the dominant male, and groups with dominant males who are able to manipulate and shame the other males seem to have higher group cohesion.

  It isn't dominance that makes it enjoyable for me to watch. Seeing beautiful women who really really seem to enjoy themselves having sex (and I don't for a minute believe that it's all fake or an act) is what makes it enjoyable. Cuz in real life, i'm kinda like the previous poster. "Is it in yet?" "omg you're done already?" LOLOL
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  Want a laugh - Message from Facebook User

  by cantleave in

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  i received this in my fb messages today.. "what a sad,sad individual you are.

  and all your apostate pals.

  you really do need to open your eyes and see whats happening in the world.

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  fresh prince of ohio

  Here's what you should write back:

  :)
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  Ambushed!!!!! Fam'ly Intervention!

  by sd-7 in

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  last night, i went to my parents' house to wash clothes--or so i thought.

  apparently, someone's been talking.

  so...i get slammed for listening to people on the internet.

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  fresh prince of ohio

  My mom even suggested that demons might be on these websites

  How does that work exactly? LOLOL

  Apparently, these are all "little" things I'm just nitpicking at

  Well, if once upon a time you engaged in a very shallow, indoctrination-oriented study of the Bible Watchtower publications that cherry pick various scriptures and throw them into a marvelous, explains-it-all religious soup, and you pretty much just went along with all of it and never really gave it a lot of deep thought, then i guess things like 607 v 587 might seem like nitpicking. I know I took their claims regarding 607 at face value and I never researched it as I didn't see it as being of any major importance. I mean, after all, they didn't teach hellfire and the trinity and the immortality of the soul! (ugh)

  But, golly! If Jerusalem really didn't fall in 607 as the Society (and nobody else) maintains, then the whole basis for the modern JW religion is totally kaput! If they would just stop and ponder that for one lousy minute! But they're so fookin' manipulated by the constant and threatening proddings to Maintain Loyalty that to even hold a thought in contrary to Watchtower dogma for a second is virtually impossible for them to do.
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  Jehovah's Witnesses serve up LEFTOVERS from other plates

  by Terry in

  1. watchtower
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  the doctrines of jehovah's witnesses are not original.. if they are not original and originating from their "faithful and discreet slave" class of anointed "prophets"--then they must be 2nd hand from other sources.. this would at once disprove the proprietary claims of special relationship with god as his mouthpiece.where did their ideas, doctrines, chronologies and reasonings find their source?

  was it the "anointed" slave or was it from earlier failed speculators who had polished a messege that got people worked up into a fervor?.

  for the answer to this we must revisit the time of the watchtower society's founder, c.t.

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  Great post terry. Really all of Christianity is picking the bones of a 1st Century crank-zealot named Paul.
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  If this doesn't cheer you up nothing will: TROLOLOLOLOLOL

  by Terry in

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  the longer you watch this the funnier it gets!.

  (by the way: great hair!).

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  Funnybizarre. I find myself liking it in spite of myself.
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  Your Favorite Comedian ....Who's Your Favorite ?

  by thetrueone in

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  2. entertainment

  so who's your favorite comedian ?.

  robin williams is up there with me, i like his approach at looking topical issues.. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pumz1q3e000.

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  Daniel Tosh and Jim Gaffigan are current faves. Me and my girlfriend watched King Baby a couple of months ago and we were both in tears laughing. I agree with previous poster regarding Chappelle, he was (is?) simply the best.
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  Work Related: Am I correct for being angry?

  by Elsewhere in

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  my manager expects (never directly ordered me), but expects me to have my work laptop booted up at home every evening after work, all weekend long and every holiday so i can monitor my email and promptly respond to emails.. .

  am i wrong for being pissed off about this?.

  the company i work for is always talking about their "work life balance" program for employees.

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  fresh prince of ohio

  There's a fresh crop of India Indians waiting anxiously to do your job for pennies on the dollar. Not everything can be outsourced of course, but it seems to me that the modern deal with IT is, unfortunately, 50 hours on a good week, 90 hours on a crazy one, with stress like you wouldn't believe, deal with it or else we'll replace you with a couple of Indians.

  That said, I'd kill for your job. I'm a bit late to the IT party but I write some pretty mean SQL (I'm constantly being bombarded with requests for various reports and the like) and am pretty indispensable to my current department, but the real IT department whose management I can't quite seem to win over won't let me in. It's got me very sad. I would be such a good damn business analyst or quality assurance analyst. But alas I remain a 39 year-old hourly shmuck just barely above being an order entry clerk. fml